Terrain is a very important part of play. These are often entered into contests at sponsored tournaments and similar gaming events, such as the or the One Ring Awards. They are also encouraged to further modify their miniatures using parts from other kits and models (known as 'Bitz' to players), modeling putty, or whatever the modeler can scrounge up.
Since the and assembled by the player, players are often encouraged to design their own paint schemes, such as coloring them differently and so on, as well as using the pre-designed ones displayed in the various books. Mixing parts from different models is a popular method of conversion (a converted miniature ).
